Jean Le Poulain
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director. He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was then recruited by Jean Vilar at the Théâtre national populaire and in 1952 he appeared with Gérard Philipe in The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He began as an actor both in theatre and cinema in 1947 and often appeared on the regular theatre show of the French television Au théâtre ce soir created in 1966. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1978, where he became sociétaire in 1980, then General administrator from septembre 1986 until his death, where he portrayed Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière. Source: Article "Jean Le Poulain" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Credits
- 1986 · Le Malade imaginaire as Argan
- 1982 · Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon as Monsieur Perrichon
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1981 · Signé Furax as Klakmuf
- 1981 · La Dame de chez Maxim as le Général Petypon du Grêlé
- 1978 · Volpone as Volpone
- 1978 · La Puce à l'oreille as Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise et Poche
- 1978 · Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires as Lucien Beix
- 1978 · Les deux timides as Thibaudier
- 1977 · Le Faiseur as M. Mercadet
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · Le noir te va si bien as John
- 1975 · Divine as Bobovitch
- 1975 · The Red Ibis as Margos
- 1975 · Système 2 as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1973 · The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot as Le frère Albaret
- 1973 · La Nuit des rois as Malvolio
- 1972 · De doux dingues as Paul Lecuyer
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Fric-Frac as Jo
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1970 · Sortie de secours as Harpagon
- 1970 · Et qu'ça saute ! as Don Pedro
- 1970 · Le Bourgeois gentilhomme as Monsieur Jourdain
- 1970 · She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks as Gruson
- 1969 · Le minotaure as Michou
- 1968 · À bout portant as Self
- 1968 · Azaïs as Le baron Wurtz
- 1968 · Salut Berthe ! as Beau Papa
- 1968 · A Strange Kind of Colonel as
- 1966 · Interdit au public as Hervé Montagne
- 1966 · At Theatre Tonight as Hervé Montagne
- 1966 · At Theatre Tonight as Le baron Wurtz
- 1966 · Seventeenth Heaven as L'homme à la voiture
- 1964 · Les Gorilles as The stage director
- 1963 · Un coup dans l'aile as Levaillant
- 1963 · Le roi du village as
- 1962 · The Empire of Night as
- 1962 · The Mysteries of Paris as The schoolmaster
- 1962 · The Deadly Decoy as
- 1962 · Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin as le préfet de police
- 1962 · Sign of the Lion as Le Clochard
- 1961 · Les livreurs as Professeur Alexis Schmutz
- 1961 · Sahara on Fire as
- 1959 · The Hunchback of Paris as Peyrolles
- 1958 · Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon as M. Mathieu, ex-Commandant au Deuxième Zouave
- 1948 · Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés as